Caterpillar uses
MIGRA to move to
Lotus Notes
Caterpillar Inc., headquartered in Peoria, Illinois is the world's leading
manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, natural gas engines and
industrial gas turbines, and a leading global supplier of diesel engines.
Since 1986, Caterpillar has made a major investment in the IBM OfficeVision
product set, with an e-mail user base of over 26,000 users, comprised of
Cat employees, dealers and suppliers,
With the advent of affordable client-server messaging, Cat plans to migrate
these users to the Lotus Notes platform, on Windows NT. Migration will be
phased over several years.
With a very heavy dependence on e-mail, it was important for the users to
maintain their work-in-progress documents as they moved from the host
environment. Caterpillar chose MIGRA, developed by TBS Software
and marketed by ReSoft International, as the means of migrating users,
their documents, address books and calendar items to the Lotus Notes platform.
In conjunction with the Lotus Domino Migration Engine released by Lotus,
MIGRA allows a managed migration of users and their work-in-progress items
to Notes.
"MIGRA allows us to migrate our users and their documents quickly
and efficiently" says Dave Marshall, Project Manager at Caterpillar.
"The speed of migration has immediate benefits in reducing the mainframe
utilization and related costs".
Longer term archived documents remain on the mainframe in the TBS
Software CLASY
Archival product. CLASY stores this information off-line, and users can access
documents in the long-term archive as required.
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